Last year, in a fascinating treatise in Wired, Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, one of whose friends was a victim of Kaczynski, said that although he believed that the Unabomber's actions had been criminally insane, there had been some merit in the case he made against a headlong technological rush to the future.
Venini was an outsider from Milan whose friends were post-World War I intelligentsia".
He had been a tutor to the Staunton family, whose friends were well connected to dukes and earls.
The doctor is a well-integrated and apolitical man whose friends are mostly Jews, and his wife's act explodes his life.
"I want to support all my girls," said Sylwia Stanko, who was born in Poland and whose friends are mostly Bengali-American or Arab-American.
If a conflict-free commission membership were the goal, neither judges nor lawyers would be eligible to serve, nor, perhaps, would anyone serve whose friends are judges.
Another question involved a character, "Ahmad," whose friends were hatching a plot to attack a supermarket in retaliation for the war in Iraq.
Recent research suggests that teens whose friends are emotionally healthy are less likely to suffer from depression, and that such friends can help improve the mood of teens who show signs of depression.
"If you are a childless 20- or 30-something whose friends are all popping babies like muffins," read a Forbes article, "you don't need me to tell you why this is a brilliant, and sanity-preserving, idea".
These are parents with deep wounds suffered on another continent, and they hand them over to their children — whose friends are now shipping out to another war — with chilling and heartbreaking cruelty.
If you are an artsy-craftsy sort whose friends are always saying you should take those fabulous whatevers you make and start a business, you might want to meet Annie Modica, of Mill Valley, Calif.
